Story ID: 359 Hawker Pacific
Hawker Pacific is booming in Asia
By: David Donald
Caption: Hawker Pacific’s FBO network extends from four locations in Australia to Malaysia, Singapore and China
Word Count: 286
Hawker Pacific (Chalet CD13) is exhibiting at Singapore on the back of a very successful year in the Asian aerospace sector. The company provides a wide range of aviation sales, charters, aircraft and engine maintenance, special mission modifications and many other product support services to both civil and military customers.

Hawker Pacific’s FBO network extends from four locations in Australia to Malaysia, Singapore and China. While the Australian facilities have recorded a 10 percent rise in traffic over the past year, that in Singapore has recorded 12 percent, and the FBO in Shanghai has increased its traffic by 18 percent. Launched in 2012, the company’s maintenance facility at Seletar Aerospace Park has also performed excellently, and is expected to show a year-on-year revenue increase of more than 30 percent over the last 12 months.

As well as its MRO activities, Hawker Pacific is an authorized sales agent for several manufacturers, including Beechcraft and Cessna that now come under the Textron umbrella. Being exhibited here are a King Air 350i and King Air C90GTx from Beechcraft, plus the TTx light aircraft, Grand Caravan EX utility transport and Citation CJ4 business jet from the Cessna stable. The company also handles used aircraft sales.

Another element of Hawker Pacific’s portfolio is government business, in which it provides a range of integrated maintenance and engineering services. The company is an integral part of the team that delivers performance-based support to Singapore’s PC-21 trainer fleet, a task that it will also perform for Australia when the first PC-21s are taken on charge by the RAAF. Hawker Pacific’s government business specialists are exhibiting as part of the Team Defence Australia exhibit (Booth F75).